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Chef April Bloomfield on Kate Bush’s ‘Under the Ivy’

To reconnect with herself, a celebrity chef turns to a Kate Bush song from childhood

April 21, 2015 10:42 a.m. ET

April Bloomfield, 40, is chef-owner of five restaurants, including New York’s Spotted Pig and the Breslin. She is also the author of “A Girl and Her Greens: Hearty Meals From the Garden” (Ecco). She spoke with Marc Myers.

In the late 1980s, when I was 12, I fell asleep in my parents’ van as we drove from Birmingham, England, to Devon....